Gray Middle School

The last week of school has been amazing! Students and staff have laughed, enjoyed each other’s company, played, and smiled a lot! We’ve played dodgeball, enjoyed the warm weather, celebrated our 8th graders and more!

See ya later Gators! Hello Raiders!

Enjoy your summer!

The first ever GMS Arts festival was a success!

Last week. Warm days. Sunshiny lunches 🌞

Congrats to our 3 teacher graduates, Ms. Embry, Mr. Kipling, and Ms. Showell!

From the Gray Archery Page:

We would like to thank everyone who joined us today for our annual Shooting for a Cause Event! We hope you had a wonderful time, had some laughs, and simply enjoyed the moment! We had a lot of fun with this event so hopefully the feeling is mutual!

We would also like to thank all great men and women who took time out of their evening to shoot with the kids during the First Responders shoot. You can find those scores posted on our page! The impact each of you had on these kids when you shot with them is astronomical! Moments like this are what bridges the gap to connect.

There’s no crying in baseball!!!!

Our final day of Teacher Apprciation Week ended with a staff grill out and some amazing cupcakes from The Sugarsnap Cupcake Food Truck!

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Congrats to Mrs. Turner for winning the 4 movie passes to Cinemark Theaters and to Nickey Oller for getting those for us!

We have some great people and great sponsors that have donated some items for staff. We plan to showcase them and give them to staff next week! The Boone County Schools

We have had several ask if they can provide treats, gift cards, etc. next week for “actual” Teacher Appreciation week, and the answer is YES!! This is TESTING WEEK, so it is probably even more appreciated!

If you would like to donate treats, candy, lunch, breakfast, gift cards, etc. please email: [email protected]

Wednesday we will have breakfast provided by Western Southern!

🚨 URGENT 🚨
Please help our very own, Ms. Rorer get to the top! She is currently in 5th place for being America’s favorite teacher! If selected she wins 25,000, a trip, and money for her school!

You can vote here!

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Is Mary Ella Rorer America's Favorite Teacher? Help Mary Ella Rorer be America’s Favorite Teacher and win $25,000, a trip to Hawaii, and a feature in Reader’s Digest.

Because we got Golden Tickets! Today staff searched the building for golden tickets, had candy provided by Gray Middle School PTSO and some AH- MAZING cakes and treats made by Ms. Steph Ross!!! Shout out to Cinemark for the popcorn!

Today’s Teacher Appreciation theme- The Breakfast Club!

Thanks to Gray Middle School PTSO for picking up donuts this morning and a huge shout out to Emerson’s Bakery for helping us out as well!

BIG thanks to Lela Jaynes at Biggby on US 42 for providing coffee this morning!!! ❤️ The Boone County Schools

HELP ON THE FLY!! We are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week early as you have seen. We had two separate companies providing a coffee cart and breakfast for tomorrow. Within 3 hours we have had some unforeseen circumstances and both are not able to commit tomorrow.

Anyone in our Gray community willing to provide about 8 dozen donuts and some coffee to our staff tomorrow morning? Teachers arrive as early as 7am, however, in this moment any help is appreciated!

You can message here or email [email protected]

***If you send a message through FB please comment with “message sent”.

Huge Shout out to Healthy Hangout Shakes and Karla Paola Magallan for providing protein shakes, teas and juices, and more for our staff today! That Peanut Butter Pie shake was AH-Mazing!!!!

Today we provided a movie lounge and Gray Middle School PTSO stocked the lounge too! Yesterday the amazing PTSO provided chick Fil A and we had some chicken fun! The Boone County Schools

Last night students got to experience The Red Carpet Dance!

Gray Athletics needs your help! We are partnering with the Raider Athletic Club to directly benefit our student athletes here at Gray. We hope that you will consider entering "The Piggest Raffle Ever”

How’s it Work? Easy! For each Pig purchased, you have a chance to win on Flying Pig Marathon Weekend and Gray Middle School's athletic programs receive 100% of your donation! Fill out and submit the form below. After submitting the form you then will be directed to the website to make the Pig purchases.

Be on the lookout for more information on how you can be involved with the RAC to benefit the student athletes at GMS!

The Piggest Raffle Ever Purchase a Raffle Entry (Pig) for $5 each on behalf of the Sport or Sports you are supporting How’s it Work? Easy! For each Pig purchased, you have a chance to win on Flying Pig Marathon Weekend and the Ryle Athletic Team(s) you select receives 100% of your donation! Fill out and submit the form b...

🚨 ITS THE WEEK BEFORE TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK! 🚨 CAN YOU HELP?

Thanks to our amazing PTSO and some parent donors at Healthy Hangout Shakes and to Ms. Stephanie Ross for her donation. We need a few more things!

We would like to provide: Some sweet treats to accompany the meal on Monday, breakfast treats on Wednesday to accompany coffee, Thursday we need popcorn, and Friday we are having a grill out.

Some items in need:

A sweet treat- think- Sugarsnap food truck for cupcakes, or someone who makes cookies, etc. or any donation of cookies, cupcakes, etc.
Popped popcorn- anyone have a connection at the movies?
Hot dogs, Mets, buns, drinks, sweet treat.

We will be playing games and such so if you would like to donate some 5.00 gift cards for coffee or wherever those are always appreciated.

Love the idea of raffling off a movie themed gift basket- if anyone would like to get a group together and create this for us, that would be amazing!

Any and all help is appreciated! Call Ms. Paff- 384-5333, email: [email protected] or message here if you want to participate. We need items by Friday afternoon of this week. 💚🧡💙

Good Afternoon,

Ms. Paff here agin…It’s that time of year again for Teacher Appreciation week! It will be held the first week of May.

Questions-
Do we have any parents who do massages and have a portable table/chair?

Do we have any local businesss who would be willing to donate gift cards to their business for Raffle?

Do we have anyone with special connections to famous athletes, actors, etc. who would be willing to bring them for a visit?

Do we have bakers, treat makers, or restaurants would be willing to help with food?

I will send the themed list out after Spring Break.

Thank you to our Para’s! Ours are AH-MAZING!

Thank you to Boots N Mini Moo’s for bringing Ms. Toodles to visit our kiddos today in Ms. Rorer’s class! We don’t know who was more excited the kiddos or the staff! 🩷 🐮 The Boone County Schools

Congrats to the Gray boys volleyball team and Coach Stiner who won the championship today for the 2024 season.

Students in McMahan’s 5th period enjoyed some outside social studies relay races!

Thank you to Ms. Twaddell and Skoolaid for a fun experience for our kids! *and maybe the adults too!! 😊 The Boone County Schools

8th graders are having a great time in Washington, DC!

Please take a moment to help our very own Ms. Rorer!!

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Is Mary Ella Rorer America's Favorite Teacher? Help Mary Ella Rorer be America’s Favorite Teacher and win $25,000, a trip to Hawaii, and a feature in Reader’s Digest.

Lucky Monday!

We are so lucky to have a supportive community! THANK YOU Kristie Walker Thornton Nora Turner Heather Kruger Parsons for your donations to our Leap Year fun and Team building competitions for staff next week!❤️

The next opportunity to help us out for anyone who may be interested is Teacher Appreciation Week in May! We do a LOT of fun things for our staff that week!

Student Spotlight Today:

Meet Mariana and welcome to the GMS movie theatre! Mariana has been studying different types of careers in her community. So today Mariana had a "job" as a movie attendant. She was responsible for wearing her uniform (hat and name tag) making the popcorn (reading and following directions in American Sign Language), organized the popcorn into containers, and selling the popcorn to her community for $1 (money management, making change). Mariana introduced herself and the movie through sign in English. Way to go Mariana!

Hi there Gator families! On Thursday, February 29th- we are going to play a game with the staff for Leap Year!

ADDITIONALLY- we are having a secret competition with all staff to promote positivity. We need help with some prizes for that too!

Do I have anyone who would be willing to donate a couple of items for prizes? Maybe a 10 gift card for lunch somewhere, items for a gift basket, coffee gift card, etc.? We will only be giving out top 3 winners who find the most frogs and prizes for our positivity challenge!

Email me- [email protected], message me here or call 859-384-5333! Or if you’re feeling “froggy” (😉) you can send in with your student to drop off in the front office for me!

Perfect ideas- 5.00 coffee gift cards, 10.00 Chipotle, Panera, etc.

Thank you all for your continued support!!!!

7th grade students have been conducting research and writing about Mt. Everest. What better guest to have than THE Mr. Detwiler to come talk about his climb. The Boone County Schools

Nice days are perfect for sitting outside for lunch!